Sentence Comprehension: The Integration of Habits and Rules

by Thomas G. Bever and David J. Townsend

Using sentence comprehension as a case study for all of cognitive science, David Townsend and Thomas Bever offer an integration of two major approaches, the symbolic-computational and the associative-connectionist. The symbolic-computational approach emphasizes the formal manipulation of symbols that underlies creative aspects of language behavior. The associative-connectionist approach captures the intuition that most behaviors consist of accumulated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262700808
• ISBN13: 9780262700801
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher